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Materials Node

Nano-materials are potential sources of groundbreaking improvements in a wide number of technological areas, including biomedicine, and energy harvesting and storage. The ANFF Materials node brings together specific strengths in the fabrication of both hard and soft materials, particularly nano-organic and inorganic electronic materials.

The Materials node is based at the University of Newcastle (UoN) and the University of Wollongong’s (UoW) new $28m Innovation campus the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials. It combines the skills, facilities and expertise of the UoW Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM), and the UoN’s Centre for Organic Electronics. Between them, these three partners offer extensive and unique capabilities in the design, development and fabrication of nanostructured electronic materials and devices.
The Materials node offer’s services for the production of research quantities of speciality nanostructured materials such as electronic polymers, macromolecules, oxides and metallic powders for application in areas such as:

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs)

Polymer actuators

Non-conventional organic electronics applications

Ceramics

Batteries and Energy Storage

Superconductivity

Electronic, spintronic, ferroelectronic and thermoelectric materials

Light metals and steel processing

In addition, the Materials Node has extensive experience across a broad range of speciality materials systems and offers a range of materials consultancy services in the design, development and fabrication of novel materials and devices.